JOB POSTING
Position Title: Fellow, Research
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Open Date: 1/13/2025
Closing Date: Until Filled
Job Type: Full-Time, Two-Year, Exempt Position
Salary Range: $60,000-70,000
The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) is a nonprofit specialty nursing organization, organized in 1968 and incorporated in 1977, representing school nurses exclusively. NASN has nearly 20,000 members and 50 affiliates, including the District of Columbia and overseas.
Position Summary:
The National Association of School Nurses is offering a two-year Fellowship. The Fellowship will begin June 2025 and will end May 2027. The primary responsibility of the Fellow is to conduct the National School Nurse Workforce Study in collaboration with NASN’s Research Team. The purpose of the workforce study is to describe the demographic characteristics and distribution patterns of school nurses, school nursing models and activities, and practice environments among self-reported public and private-school nurses in the United States. NASN conducted the first National School Nurse Workforce Study in 2016 with a follow-up, National School Nurse Workforce Study 2.0 in 2021. The infographics for the 2021 results are available on the NASN website. NASN plans to conduct the 2025-26 National School Nurse Workforce Study to 1) continue measuring workforce datapoints explored in the previous workforce studies, 2) enhance our current understanding of school nurse sensitive indicators, and 3) explore regional variations in school nursing workforce, practice, and student access to care.
The specific responsibilities of the Fellowship include:
- Collaboratively design workforce study
- Conduct primary data collection
- Contribute to data analysis, in collaboration with NASN Research Team and statistician
- Collaboratively create a Dissemination Plan
- Substantially contribute as lead author on at least one manuscript disseminating survey findings
- Collaboratively develop infographics based on survey findings
- Participate as a Member of the NASN Research Team, weekly meetings
- Create an Individualized Development Plan (IDP) with goals for individual growth, research, and contributions supporting NASN’s strategic plan
- Submit quarterly written reports related to the IDP and workforce study progress
- Collaborate with other NASN work projects, as time and expertise allow
- Travel to NASN annual conference and as needed for NASN-related work (expenses covered by NASN)
Qualifications/Skills:
- Recent (within the last two years) PhD or other doctoral program graduate in nursing, public health or related disciplines or doctoral student graduating no later than May 2025
- Experienced in survey design and development and statistical analysis
- An interest in workforce research (interest in nursing practice research including nursing models of practice a plus)
- Experienced with Qualtrics for survey development and dissemination
Benefits:
- Base salary/benefits – NASN currently offers a four-day work week. Fellows may spend on average up to 20% of their time (e.g., 8 hours per 5-day week) in part-time research, teaching, or clinical employment, so long as those activities do not interfere with, or lengthen their fellowship. In addition to this fellowship, fellows may engage in their own program of research, research dissemination, or part-time employment incidental to their training. (Any potential conflict of interest or competing interests should be disclosed to NASN.)
- Remote working environment
- Paid NASN membership
- Access to bibliographic literature databases
- Fellow will be a member of NASN’s interprofessional research team, which currently includes DNP, PhD, EdD and DrPH trained and educated team members. Fellow will have two mentors: NASN’s Director of Research, Practice, and Education (DNP) for evidence-based practice and QI expertise and NASN’s CEO (EdD) for organizational leadership expertise
- Opportunities for implementation science work through PhD-DNP partnership focus
- Insight into a non-profit professional organization
- Time for individual work related to research planning and dissemination
Physical Demands and Work Environment
Environment: Remote work setting with occasional interruptions.
Physical: Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Vision: Sight must be in the normal visual range with or without correction.
Hearing: Auditory ability must be in the normal audio range with or without correction.
NOTE: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, and/or physical requirements required of all personnel within this job classification.
NASN is an equal employment opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, citizenship status, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, political affiliation, or any other factor protected by law.
Location: Remote
Benefits: Health Insurance, paid time off, 403(b) retirement account
To apply: Email resume, letter of interest with salary requirement, and references to kmcduffie@nasn.org with the subject line “Research Fellow”